Zeus-Jupiter
King of the gods, ruler of Mount Olympus, and god of the sky, weather, thunder, lightning, law, order, and justice. He is the youngest son of Cronus and Rhea. He overthrew Cronus and gained the sovereignty of heaven for himself. In art he is depicted as a regal, mature man with a sturdy figure and dark beard. His usual attributes are the royal scepter and the lightning bolt. His sacred animals include the eagle and the bull. His Roman counterpart is Jupiter, also known as Jove.
Zeus-Jupiter Stamp Collection
Greece 1937 Greek Bronze Nude Zeus Keraunios Hurling a Thunderbolt
Suriname 1984 For the olympic games in Los angeles . Bronze Head of Zeus from olympia 510-520 BC in the national archeological museum, Athens
Greece 1954 Head of Zeus from cape Artemision in north Euboea. HE is called "Zeus of Istiaea" .
Greece 1972 Zeus Casting Thunderbolts. Sanctuary of Zeus at Dodona, bronze, around 470 BC. Antikensammlung Berlin, Altes Museum
Albania 1974 Jupiter is represented here by a bronze statue of very good quality found in the region of Korça in southeast Albania. Jupiter is portrayed naked, He is wearing only a chlamys draped over his neck and left shoulder. The statue has exceptional facial features and hair, and a very muscular body. The bearded Jupiter is seen looking away to his right, and his weight is on his right leg.
Albania 1987 Jupiter, Limestone Head (2nd cent. A.D.), Tirana
Grenada 1973 Centenary of the world meteorological organization. Zeus and his thunderbolt and a radarscope
Greece 1987 Zeus and the Snake: Aesop’s Fables . Zeus was getting married and all the animals brought gifts to the wedding. The snake also came creeping along, holding a rose in his mouth. When Zeus saw him, he said, ‘I am willing to take gifts from all the other animals, even when they carry them in their feet, but from your mouth, I will take nothing.’
The fable shows that even the favours of wicked people are frightening.
Bhutan 1971 The Artemision is an ancient Greek sculpture that was recovered from the sea off Cape Artemision, in northern Euboea. This is only the head of Zeus. The statue is slightly over lifesize at 209 cm, helding a thunderbolt. The debate over whether the statue represents Poseidon or Zeus hinges on the lost attribute held in the figure's right hand.
Greece 2007 Zeus from Artemision (460 bc). The other one is a bronze head with a dolden mask , Shang dynasty (1557-1030 bc)
Greece 1986 Zeus holding Thunderbolts
Tonga 1996 Zeus from Artemision for the 100 years to the olympic games of new times.
Paraguay 1978 When Zeus was about to be born, Rhea sought Gaia to devise a plan to save him, so that Cronus would get his retribution for his acts against Uranus and his own children. Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Crete, handing Cronus a rock wrapped in swaddling clothes, which he promptly swallowed.According to Pseudo-Apollodorus Zeus was raised by a goat named Amalthea in a cave called Dictaeon Antron (Psychro Cave). A a company of soldiers called Kouretes danced, shouted and clashed their spears against their shields so that Cronus would not hear the baby's cry. This painting of Jordaens shows Adrastea milking a goat Amalthea for the infant zeus.
Greece 1973 Zeus fighting three Giants. Detail of a relief , from the Pergamon Altar, reconstructed in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The Pergamon Altar as reconstructed in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, a monumental construction built during the reign of Greek King Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC in the ancient Greek city of Pergamon in Asia Minor
Bhutan 1991 Jupiter is seated with his right foot upon a sphere and is flanked by Venus and Juno, an eagle flies overhead; on the right Psyche is born aloft by Mecury towards Cupid at Venus' feet, at the left, the Three Graces proffer a crown of flowers. This painting is a late eighteenth or early nineteenth century copy of an oil sketch for a ceiling by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) now in the Liechtenstein collection
France 1947 It was often said that Zeus took the form of an eagle and abducted Aegina, taking her to an island near Attica, then called Oenone; henceforth known by her name. Aegina's father Asopus chased after them; his search took him to Corinth, where Sisyphus was king. Sisyphus, having chanced to see a great bird bearing a maiden away to a nearby island, informed Asopus. Though Asopus pursued them, Zeus threw down his thunderbolts sending Asopus back to his own waters. Aegina eventually gave birth to her son Aeacus, who became king of the island.
Greece 1974 A painting from the 6th century BC. The goddess Athena is birthed from the head of Zeus. The king of the gods sits on a throne. He holds a royal sceptre in one hand and a stylized lightning-bolt in the other. A miniature-sized Athena springs from his brow, ready equipped with a spear, shield, helm and serpent-trimmed aegis vest. Four gods witness the birth--Neptun, Eileithyia, Hera and Ares. Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, midwifes the child with two arms . Hera, standing opposite her, lifts a single hand. Her son Ares is depicted as a hoplite warrior with a peaked helm, greaves, spear, and shield decorated with the image of a tripod.
Greece 1973 On a Hydria 540 BC - Typhon also Typhoeus was a monstrous serpentine giant and one of the deadliest creatures in Greek mythology. According to Hesiod, Typhon was the son of Gaia and Tartarus. Typhon and his mate Echidna were the progenitors of many famous monsters. Typhon attempted to overthrow Zeus for the supremacy of the cosmos. The two fought a cataclysmic battle, which Zeus finally won with the aid of his thunderbolts. Defeated, Typhon was cast into Tartarus, or buried underneath Mount Etna, or the island of Ischia. Typhon mythology is part of the Greek succession myth, which explained how Zeus came to rule the gods.
Burundi 1973 Jupiter and Neptune for The 500th Anniversary of the Birth of Copernicus